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Ellersiek, Kurt Hildebert

    Date of birth:
    April 1st, 1901 (Dortmund, German Empire)
    Service number:
    SS.nr: 275719 / NSDAP.nr.: 218341
    Nationality:
    German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

    Biography

    Promotions:
    Juni 1930: SA-Scharführer
    1933: SA-Oberscharführer
    15 December 1935: SS-Hauptsturmführer
    13 September 1936: SS-Sturmbannführer
    20 April 1938: SS-Obersturmbannführer
    1 September 1941: SS-Standartenführer
    ?: SS-Oberführer

    SS career:
    1916-1920: Völkischer Wandervogel
    ?: Treubund für Rheinland und Westfalen
    1929-1935: Sturmabteilung (SA)
    1930: NSDAP
    1935: Algemeine-SS
    1939-1940: SS-Grossdeutschland regiment
    March 1941: Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
    October 1941: SS-Infanterie Ersatz Batalion, LSSAH
    May 1943: General command, III (Germanische) Panzerkorps
    August 1943: Sturmartillerie/11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland
    January 1944: Wounded at Leningrad
    Februry 1944: Marion Hill Lazaret, Würzburg
    May 1944: SS-Sturmgeschutz/Ausbildungs und Ersatsabteilung
    August 1944: Reich security office
    December 1944: Gener stafs, SS personel main office
    February 1945: Commander in de Volkssturm/Rheinfront

    Ellersiek organized a German resistance network (Organisation Süddeutschland) and was arrested by the U.S. secret service in 1947. On 19 July 1961, Ellersiek was sentenced to 4,5 years prison for executing an Obergefreiter in the final phase of the war.

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    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)
    Unit:
    1. SS-Panzer-Division "Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler", Waffen-SS
    Awarded on:
    August 11th, 1941
    Awarded for:
    Operation Barbarossa
    Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
    Ehrenwinkel der Alten Kämpfer

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